Women’s Institute for Leadership and Learning

The Stories Project is a way to let your voice be heard around the world!  

The mission of the Stories

Project is to document

women’s life-experiences

from over the last seventy-five years to share as examples of women’s ingenuity and  leadership.  

Dialogues attendee are invited to bring with them a story to share.  Soon, this web site will offer a place to submit stories online, as well.  

Whether your story is written or oral, takes the form of a narrative, a poem, or a song, if you can offer a  life-experience that you (or your mother, grandmother, aunt, sister, friend) have experienced on your journey with a focus on how your “challenge” was overcome, you might have the opportunity to alter history for one or more individuals who, for a brief moment, share your experience and learn from it.  Inspire someone, just like Elizabeth Cady Stanton once inspired a few, then hundreds, then thousands, and over the last 160 years, millions of young women to change their lives – and our world – for the better.

The 2009 Seneca Falls Dialogues featured guest presenters Dr. Peggy Brooks-Bertram, PH, PhD, and Dr. Barbara Seals Nevergold,

co-founders of the Uncrowned

Queens Institute for Research

and Education on Women, Inc.

The Institute conducts research

on issues affecting women of

color, then develops educational programming.

Providing their insight to the Panel on “Legacies and Leadership”, Drs. Brooks-Bertram and Nevergold joined Dr. Doris Meadows to discuss the trends of cross-national

movements, using case studies to foster discussions with Dialogues attendees.  

The Institute is affiliated with the University of Buffalo, and by visiting their web site, you can view their Blog, entitled “Go Tell Michelle,” a shared network of messages to our First Lady, Michelle Obama.  The web site can be reached at:

www.wings.buffalo.edu/uncrownedqueens

By all accounts, the 2012 Seneca Falls Dialogues event was a tremendous success, attracting students, women’s studies professors and researchers, and interested women and men who made the pilgrimage to historic Seneca Falls.

On the weekend of October 19-21, 2012, Seneca Falls, the Upstate New York community known as the birthplace of women’s rights, buzzed with activity. Organizers are currently soliciting remembrances and follow up stories from attendees.  If you have a story to share, contact Adriene Emmo using this website’s contact page, and let her know your interest in submitting.  

For a synopsis of the weekend itinerary, click here.